Device for abstracting land titles.



No. 800,397. PATENTED SEPT. 26,1905.

F; W. RIBLET.

DEVICE-POR BSTRAGTING LAND TITLES.

APPLICATION FILED JULY`21,1904 l 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1A No. 800,397. EATENTED SEPT. ze, 1905.

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APPLIEMIOE FILED JULY 21.1904.

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UNITED STATESA rTENT OFFICE.

lFRED W. RIBLFT. OF NEWAYGO, MICHIGAN.

DEVICE Fon ABsTRAoTlNc-s. LTANDA TITLES..

To all whom t may concern:

Beit known that L-FRED W. RIBLET, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at N ewaygo, in the county of Newaygo apd State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Abstracting Land Titles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as lwill enable .others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. Y

My invention relates to an improved device for abstracting land titles; and its object is to provide a morev convenient, accurate, and simple means for making sets of abstracts from the public records and keeping them renewed to date and to provide a more convenient and simple means for tracing land titles, to provide means whereby the abstracts can be readily reproduced, if destroyed, and to provide a device having various new andv usefull features, as will hereinafter more fully appear and be particularly pointed outv in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective of a tray or drawer containing a quantity of cards as they appear after having been prepared for filingand filed in the tray; Fig. 2, a plan of one of the cards adapted for abstracting lands described by sections, quarters, and sixteenths of sections, town, and range as said card appears before preparation for filing; Fig. 3, the sameof a card adapted for abstracting platted lands; Fig. 4, the back of a card for abstracting mortgages or other incumbrances -oftitles; Fig. 5, a plan of a page of a book to "be used in conjunction with the cards shown in Fig. 2, and Fig. 6 the same of a book to be lsed in conjunction with the cards shown in Like letters refer -to like parts in allof the gures. y v

A represents any'suitable tray or drawer to contain the cards and having on the front blanks to be filled outwith the number of the section, together with the town and range to lvhich the entries on the cards in the tray reate. B represents cards adapted to abstract titles of land described by section and divisions of These cards are first prepared as shown in Fig. 2. The upper edge is divided into four equal parts, representing quartersections, by recesses D, which form channels running through the upper edges of the cards Specification of Letters Patent. l Application filed July 21, 1904. Serial No. 217.579

.Patented sept. 26,1905.

when thefsame are arranged in the .tray f and the divisions between the recesses are lettered of N. E, of N. W.,? of S. W., of S. E, to correspond to the respective quarters of `a section of land, and each divisionis provided with four upwardly-projecting tabs C, adapted to be detached from the cards by any suitable means, and each series.

of four tabs is lettered N. E, N. W.,

S. W., S. E.to respectively indicate V.

the respective quarters of a quarter-section or sixteenth of a section or any lesser part.

thereof, and on the face of the card when the same is used is written the abstract of any particular deed, mortgagejor any other 1n-A -Y strument, as occasion requires. Blanks L are also provided on each card for entering the section, town, range, date, date of record, liber, and page of the public records relating to the instrument abstracted. Obviously if the land referred to is divided otherwise than by quarters and sixteenths the Iabs of each,` card would be divided into a number of groups, corresponding to the number of main divisions of the land and each group contains tabs equally numberedto the subdivisions of each main division or minor divisions of the land.

For abstracting platted lands the tray shouldv be provided with a blank on the front indieating the part of a block, block or blocks, and plat to which the contained cards relate andcards,'as in Fig. 3, provided, havingh similar recesses D, preferably four, and ve tabs C', provided to each subdivision of the If theblock contains less or morev ,90 cards between the recesses, and ythese tabs.

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mortgages or other assignable instruments I providecards having their backs preparedi as shown in Fig. 4, said backs being provided l with vertical lines dividing the same into several parts, preferably four, as zshown at Q, one of which is provided with blanks in which toenter the vdate of the instrument,`

the date of record, and the liber and page ofl the public records, with the word Discharged, and a blank to enter 4the name of the cards is provided for, and a separate acentering' the lot or the block and lot and plat record is preserved in the libers and pages ytinuing abstracts to or from any date desired.

every plat without blocks, as the case.Y may be;

the party discharging the same, the other parts being marked Assigned and having blanks for the name of the assignee, date of instrument, date of record, liber, and page of record. Thus these cards when properly filled out show an abstract of the mortgage on the face of the card and all assignments and the discharge of the same, if any, on the back, and thus furnish a complete history of the instrument. I also provide a book or books having pages ruled as in Fig. 5 and having columns F for entering the date of record, columns G for the liber, and columns H for the page of the public records of each instrument abstracted under the particular head shown at the top of the page, the various headings at the rtops of the pages of the book being a duplicate ofthe manner of labeling each tray, as shown in Fig. l, and also of the labeling of trays containing cards of platted lands.

The page shown in Fig. -5 has blanks J for entering thesection, with its town and range to which the entries below relate, and the page shown in Fig. 6 has a like blank J for to which the entries below relate. In this manner the abstracts need no rewriting to revise them, so as to get the transactions arranged chronologically, and the -order or on the book, as aforesaid, to facilitate con- To more easily distinguish cards containing abstracts of incumbranees from conveyances, (into which two general classes I divide all instruments,) I prefer to provide cards of different colors (not shown) for the respective classes of instruments to correspond with the pages of the book just referred to. I thus have as appliancesl for abstracting titles a tray assigned to each section or part of a section or to a block or to a part of a block or to one or more blocks, a suitable number of' cards suitably prepared as aforesaid also so assigned and one or more pages of a book also assigned in like manner, each related tray, card, and page of the book having corresponding entries indicatingthe particular section or block to which the instruments abstracted relate. A

My method of using this device is as follows: If the instrument to be abstracted is a deed, itis noted with all the particulars, preferably on a White card. If it is an incumbrance, it is noted on a tinted card. A separate tray for count is preferably kept with each section where it is not platted and with each block of each plat or with each ten or twenty lots of but variations from this general rule should be made to suit individual requirements. The accounts are opened by filling out the heading soo,

white paper, of the book herein before referred to to contain such land as is niost natural to gather into one account, and a like headingis made on the next succeeding page (preferably tinted) for incumbranccs and the appropriato entries made in the blanks on the corresponding' tray. A book havingr detached leaves is preferable, as the accounts can bc continued w,IJ-,V supplying additional leaves, as required.

If an instrument aiiects land incorporated in more than one account, copies oi the abstractcards are made and iiled in as many accounts as are necessary to include the land affected thereby. After the instrument is properly noted, as aforesaid, on an appropriate card all of the tabs on the top of the card ai'e removed, except such as indicate the land referred to in the instrument abstracted thereon. If less than a full sixteenth of a section or less than a lot is aii'ected by the instrument abstracted, a suitable symbol is placed near the top, as at C', Fig. 2, to indicate such fact and the more particular description is entered on the lower part of the card. By this means no descriptions have to be written except those that cannot be indicated by the tabs remaining on the cards. The blanks L or M on the cards are then filled out and the date of the instrument abstracted, and also its liber and page are then entered under their proper heading in the book above referred to. rl`he card is then deposited in its proper tray, labeled the same as the headingon the book. The deedcards and mortgage-cards are kept separate in the tray. In this manner each instrument is noted on cards and the cards indexed and iiled and all necessity for transcribing any part of the same is avoided. The tabs remaining on the cards after being deposited in the tray provide a speedy means of' tracing the title to any description of the land desired, since every tab in any row from front to rear indicates that the card on which it is bears an abstract of a document affecting' the portion of land represented by the tab.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

i 1. Inacard-index for abstraeting land titles, a card having tabs or projections severally representing the minor subdivisions of a quantity of land, and arranged in groups, each group representing one of the main subdivisions of the land.

2. In a card-index for abstracting land titles, a card having recesses in its edge dividing the same into several parts equal in number to the main divisions of the land to which the abstracts relate, and detachable tabs on each of said parts equal in number to the number of minor divisions of' land in each main division represented by said part.

3. In a card-index for abstracting land titles, a card having recesses in its edge dividing the J or J of a page for deeds, preferably on 'same into four parts indicating the respective IOO IIO

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quarters of a section of land, and also having parts and representing` the respective quarters four tabs on each part indicating the respecof a section of land, and blanks for entering tive .four quarters of the respective quartervarious dataron the face of the card respect-- section, and suitable letters on the tabs and ing the instrument abstracted thereon. I5

5 opposite the said parts. In testimony whereof I aliix my signature in 4. 4In acard-index for abstractingland titles, presence of tWo Witnesses.

a card having recesses in its edge dividing the Y same into four equal parts,.four tabs on each FRED RIBLET' of said parts, letters on the tabs representing' Witnesses: IO the respective sixteentlis of a section consti- MAUD SAILORS, tuting a quarterfsection, letters opposite said ELIZABETH Y. TRUMAN. 

